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Corman, Roger
(1926-2024) US film-maker, a number of whose films are sf. Born in Los Angeles, he graduated in engineering from Stanford University in 1947, and spent a period in the US Navy and a term at Oxford University before going to Hollywood, where he began to write screenplays; his first sale was Highway Dragnet (1954), a picture he coproduced. He soon formed his own company and launched his spectacularly low-budget career. From 1956 he was regularly associated with ...
Newman, Richard Louis
(1956- ) US author of a Space Opera, Siege of Orbitor (1980), in which the eponymous Spaceship, en route to Jupiter, is assaulted from within by a Mutant planning to take over command; and a horror tale, On Wings of Evil (1988). [JC]
Man with the Power, The
Made-for-tv film (1977). Universal Television for NBC-TV. Produced by Allan Baltar and Rod Holcombe. Directed by Nicholas Sgarro. Written by Baltar. Cast includes Persis Khambatta, Bob Neil and Tim O'Connor. 93 minutes. Colour. / US government agent Walter Bloom (O'Connor) recruits Eric Smith (Neil) to help foil an assassination plot against the visiting Indian princess Siri (Khambatta). Smith's father, it is revealed, was actually an Alien from an ...
Jaeger, Muriel
(1892-1969) UK author who took an English degree at Oxford and was a member there of a group of women writers, including Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957), which called itself the Mutual Admiration Society. Her first sf work, The Question Mark (1926), depicts a Utopian UK of 200 years hence – as witnessed by the protagonist, who has been roused from a cataleptic trance (see Sleeper Awakes) – as a ...
Walotsky, Ron
(1943-2002) US illustrator who began his career in sf art with the cover for the May 1967 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, illustrating Phyllis Gotlieb's novelette "Planetoid Idiot". Walotsky would continue to be associated with F&SF for the rest of his life, painting some sixty covers for the magazine. He also produced many book covers and brochure paintings for the ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. His first professional publication was a long sf-tinged poem, "Carcajou Lament" (Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959] Triquarterly); he only began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and sf proper with ...